The podcast maps the history of sadness, melancholy and anxiety in western popular music and shows how the mood of pop culture is connected to the context of its times.

The second part, called Just Dance, examines the reaction of American pop music to a financial crisis of 2008 until the Trump victory in the 2016 elections. We follow the music of Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift as the pop music went through the cycle of getting over to the shock of collapsing economy.